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Man held with gold worth Tk 18.40m at Dhaka airport

Man held with gold worth Tk 18.40m at Dhaka airport

-- 2021-12-24 15:54:51

A Bangladeshi-origin Italian national was held with gold bars worth over Tk 18.40 million at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Thursday. Amranul Haque, who's originally from Raipura...

BGD e-Gov CIRT develops e-KYC to provide digital services

BGD e-Gov CIRT develops e-KYC to provide digital services

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-24 15:02:27

The state-run Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-Gov CIRT) has developed its own software e-KYC (Know Your Customer) to provide digital services to the people in the countr...

Bestseller to donate Tk 44.78m to Bangladesh

Bestseller to donate Tk 44.78m to Bangladesh

FE REPORT 2021-12-24 09:57:15

Danish clothing company Bestseller and its charitable arm Bestseller Foundation will donate DKK 3.5 million (Tk 44.78 million) to Bangladesh to fight Covid-19. The donation will be shared amongst fou...

Thrust on boosting output of all-season beans thru hi-tech

Thrust on boosting output of all-season beans thru hi-tech

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-24 09:47:05

SYLHET: Agriculture scientists and researchers at an event in Sylhet on Thursday stressed the need for boosting production of all season beans and other vegetables through application of modern farmin...

Death toll from Jhalakathi launch fire rises to 37

Death toll from Jhalakathi launch fire rises to 37

-- 2021-12-24 09:39:04

At least 37 people have died after a midnight fire swept through a launch on the Sugandha river in Jhalakathi. The death toll is likely to rise as more passengers have been injured after the Barguna-...

Bangladeshis among migrants entitled to repatriation in Malaysia until June 2022

Bangladeshis among migrants entitled to repatriation in Malaysia until June 2022

FE REPORT 2021-12-24 09:13:56

The Malaysian government extended the deadline of its Labour Recalibration Programme by six months for repatriation of the undocumented migrants, including Bangladeshi workers. Under the programme, t...

BINA scientists unveil full genome sequence of salinity, flood tolerant rice

BINA scientists unveil full genome sequence of salinity, flood tolerant rice

-- 2021-12-23 19:18:05

Scientists at Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) and Bangladesh Agriculture University (BAU) have unveiled the full genome sequence of salinity and submergence tolerant rice for the fi...

Suspended Dewanganj mayor held with drugs in city

Suspended Dewanganj mayor held with drugs in city

-- 2021-12-23 18:24:59

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the suspended mayor of Jamalpur's Dewanganj municipality Shah Newaz Shahanshah along with illegal drugs from a hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday. RAB legal...

Biman to introduce flights with Maldives, says PM   

Biman to introduce flights with Maldives, says PM   

-- 2021-12-23 18:08:45

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said Biman Bangladesh Airlines is set to introduce its flight operation with the Maldives via Chennai as both the countries have agreed to enhance air connecti...

24 more hospitalised with dengue in 24hrs

24 more hospitalised with dengue in 24hrs

-- 2021-12-23 18:05:30

Twenty-four new dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, health authorities said. Fatalities from dengue remained unchanged at 104 as no new death was reported during the...

Charges pressed against BNP leader Khasru for allegedly Instigating road safety protests

Charges pressed against BNP leader Khasru for allegedly Instigating road safety protests

-- 2021-12-23 17:51:52

Chattogram police have submitted charge sheet against BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury in a case filed under the Special Powers Act for instigating violence and destabilising...

Accessibility to law remains a challenge for women in Bangladesh

Accessibility to law remains a challenge for women in Bangladesh

-- 2021-12-23 17:24:42

Accessibility to law remains a challenge for women and young girls in the country despite a number of laws and guidelines to protect citizens’ rights, said experts at an event on Thursday. They...

Bangladesh logs 382 COVID cases, two deaths in a day

Bangladesh logs 382 COVID cases, two deaths in a day

-- 2021-12-23 17:09:45

Bangladesh has registered 382 new COVID-19 cases in a day, taking the total caseload to 1,582,368. The death toll rose to 28,054 as another two people died from the disease in the 24 hours to 8 am on...

Tourist gang-raped after husband, child taken hostage

Tourist gang-raped after husband, child taken hostage

-- 2021-12-23 16:59:51

A tourist has allegedly been gang-raped after she went to Cox’s Bazar on a trip with her husband and son. A group of men took her husband and child hostage from the city’s Laboni Point ar...

DSCC garbage vehicle takes another life

DSCC garbage vehicle takes another life

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-23 15:49:04

Another man faced the tragic end of his life as a garbage carrying vehicle of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) hit a man at Wari in the capital on Thursday. With this accident, a total of three de...

Bangladesh, Maldives sign deals on health, sports and taxation

Bangladesh, Maldives sign deals on health, sports and taxation

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-23 15:16:20

Bangladesh and Maldives today signed three agreements on health, education, dual taxation, youth and sports, elevating the bilateral relations to a new height, BSS reports. The signing ceremony was h...

Slapping education officer: Dewanganj Municipality Mayor Shahanshah arrested

Slapping education officer: Dewanganj Municipality Mayor Shahanshah arrested

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-23 10:48:59

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Shah Newaz Shahanshah, the municipality mayor of Jamalpur's Dewanganj, from a hotel in Dhaka. He was arrested from a hotel in Uttara Sector 6 on Thursday...

Gulistan footpaths of illegal shops cleared

Gulistan footpaths of illegal shops cleared

FE REPORT 2021-12-23 10:14:00

The authorities of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Wednesday pulled down an unspecified number of makeshift shops built illegally on footpaths in Gulistan area of the capital. The corporation...

Ramu rubber farming in a tight spot

Ramu rubber farming in a tight spot

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-23 09:58:50

COX'S BAZAR: The existence of rubber cultivation in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar that dates back to over six decades is now in a fragile condition for various reasons. Lack of manpower and patronisati...

ACC gets wealth info about Hefazat leaders

ACC gets wealth info about Hefazat leaders

FE REPORT 2021-12-23 09:56:20

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recently received wealth information about several leaders of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh from 17 organisations as part of its investigation into graft allegati...

BNP holds rally in six districts demanding Khaleda Zia’s treatment abroad

BNP holds rally in six districts demanding Khaleda Zia’s treatment abroad

-- 2021-12-22 22:57:01

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said there is no point in holding talks on the formation of the Election Commission since it is not possible to hold a credible election...

I have tried to channel my pain into building Bangladesh, PM says

I have tried to channel my pain into building Bangladesh, PM says

-- 2021-12-22 22:34:57

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she learnt from her father -- Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman-- how to empathise with the deprived, the disadvantaged, and how to dream abo...

Jasod backs EC formation through search committee

Jasod backs EC formation through search committee

-- 2021-12-22 21:50:24

Taking party in talks with President Abdul Hamid, Hasanul Haq Inu-led Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Jasod) on Wednesday said the reconstitution of the Election Commission (EC) through a search committee is...

Govt simplifies passport correction process

Govt simplifies passport correction process

-- 2021-12-22 21:33:57

From now on, citizens can correct personal information on their passports by presenting their national identity cards details, the home ministry has announced. Until now, the amendment process was co...

Over 10m urban people migrated to village due to pandemic

Over 10m urban people migrated to village due to pandemic

-- 2021-12-22 20:23:29

More than 10 million people have migrated from urban to rural areas in the country for loss of work and income during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Abul Barkat, an economist, has said. Around...

India ‘closes’ its border to Bangladeshi students

India ‘closes’ its border to Bangladeshi students

-- 2021-12-22 18:49:28

The Indian authorities have reportedly closed their borders to Bangladeshi students amid a surge in cases of the omicron coronavirus in parts of the world. “Petrapole Immigration Authority aske...

Prime minister reaches Maldives

Prime minister reaches Maldives

-- 2021-12-22 18:23:48

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reached the Maldives on her maiden six-day bilateral visit to the country at the invitation of Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. "A special VVIP flight of Bi...

JSD joins president's dialogue on EC formation

JSD joins president's dialogue on EC formation

-- 2021-12-22 18:02:58

President Abdul Hamid has started a dialogue with the leaders of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) on the formation of the next Election Commission. The dialogue, the second in the series, started at B...

34pc work of Bangabandhu Railway Bridge completed

34pc work of Bangabandhu Railway Bridge completed

-- 2021-12-22 17:50:52

The construction works of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge over the Jamuna River are progressing fast as its 34 per cent work has already been completed. The 4.8km-long rail bridge is bein...

Tank lorries to go on indefinite strike from Jan 3

Tank lorries to go on indefinite strike from Jan 3

-- 2021-12-22 17:35:43

Bangladesh Tank-lorry Owners Association has called an indefinite strike from January 3 across the country demanding a hike in transport fare due to the surge in fuel prices. General Secretary of Ban...